mt

mt is a simple desktop music player designed for large music collections.

Features

• Built for large libraries: virtual scrolling, content-aware reloading, and LRU-cached artwork
• Cross-platform: macOS, Linux, and Windows with native media key and OS Now Playing support
• Themeable: light, dark, and system themes with customizable columns
• Playlists and queue management: drag-and-drop reordering, play next, play history navigation
• Metadata editing: read and write tags directly on audio files, including batch editing
• Watched folders: multi-directory monitoring with real-time filesystem events, duplicate detection, and move tracking
• Keyboard-driven: shortcuts for playback, search, navigation, and type-to-jump by artist
• Last.fm integration: scrobbling, now playing, loved track sync, and queued retry on failure

Minimum Requirements

• OS
  • macOS Sequoia (15.7+)
  • Linux
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu
  • Windows 11 (21H2+)
• node 24.2.0
• rust 1.92.0
  • Be sure to install rustup!
• task

Setup

# install deps
task npm:install

# run dev server
task tauri:dev

1.0.0 Highlights

1. Pure Rust backend -- complete migration from Python/FastAPI to Tauri commands; Python sidecar removed
2. Last.fm scrobbling -- now playing, loved track sync, queued retry on failure, bidirectional love sync
3. Cross-platform builds -- macOS code signing and notarization, Windows NSIS installer, Linux AMD64 and ARM64 Docker builds
4. Virtual scrolling -- smooth rendering for libraries with tens of thousands of tracks
5. Artists and Albums views -- split-pane artist browser and album grid with detail view
6. Watched folders -- multi-directory monitoring with real-time filesystem events, duplicate detection, and move tracking
7. Keyboard shortcuts -- global playback controls, type-to-jump artist navigation with same-letter cycling
8. Drag-and-drop playlists -- reorder tracks, columns, sidebar playlists; library-to-playlist drops
9. Performance tuning -- artwork LRU cache, parallel scanning with rayon, SQLite connection pooling, CSS containment
10. Structured logging and diagnostics -- tracing-based backend logging, frontend error capture, exportable log files

See the full release notes for details.

Development

See Builds for build configuration, performance tuning, and signing.

Credit

• MusicBee for years of rock-solid playback and inspiration to build a subset of its features for other operating systems
• Logo
  • Music - Sentya Irma
  • mango tree - Aisyah

TODO

See TODO.md for a list of features and improvements.